Postal vote reminder

If you have a postal vote and applied for this before 30 January 2024, you have to reapply before the 31 of January to keep receiving your ballot papers by post. 

(We do have a local election in May this year - Izaak is up for re-election!)

You'll have received plenty of reminders from the council, but there are still around 45,000 people in the city who receive a postal vote but haven't re-applied yet.

If you have any problems with this process do let us know. We've helped at least one constituent with it already.

If you don't currently get a postal vote but would like one for convenience or because you'll be away, it's so easy to apply online nowadays - you can do so here.

The need to re-apply is a requirement of the government's Elections Act 2022, which sees postal voters needing to renew their postal vote application every three years, with an identity check now included as part of the process.

If you don't renew your postal vote by 31 January, you will lose the postal vote option and have to vote in-person at a polling station at future elections, beginning with the local elections on Thursday 7 May this year.